Over a half-century after the triumph of Apollo, it's frustrating to see China take the lead in a new space race as the White House shackles NASA to exert political control. The China Manned Space ...

As of spring 2026, China has named the two spacecraft that will carry its astronauts to the moon, advanced a competitive design process for a crewed lunar rover, and continued building a heavy-lift ...

China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they'll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the ...

China recently conducted a test of a lunar lander, marking a turning point in the country’s space ambitions. The experiment is a central part of efforts to land astronauts on the moon by the end of ...

The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing, with China’s progress slow and steady and the US’s landers still in development ...

China is advancing toward its goal of sending a manned mission to the moon by around 2030, with the pace of construction of ...

JIUQUAN, 31 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - China is holding firm to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon by 2030, and has outlined a packed schedule of development and testing for its ambitious ...

Humans last walked on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This moment is often regarded as the pinnacle of the U.S. space program. Back then, the Apollo–Soviet space race was a ...

China has taken one big step towards putting astronauts on the moon by successfully completing takeoff and landing tests for its lunar lander at a site in Hualai county, Hebei province, on 6 August.

HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two teams to develop prototype rovers for the country’s planned crewed moon mission before the end of the decade. The country last year put out ...